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Great Smokey Mountains

The National Park System has to be one of our favorite things about the United States. We have enjoyed hitting as many as we can during our two weeks a year vacation spans over the past 10 years, which has really only contributed to the bottleneck of automobile tourism in the park system.

The problem with most National Parks is that they allow cars inLuckily we found a place cars couldn’t go, a 10 mile hike to Mt. LeConte

Then you can really start enjoying the beauty of nature in “solitude”Exploring CavesTaking in Panoramic Viewsand finding real natural spring fed water (the first this bottle has seen)Spitting llama says what !?!Contemplating why they call them the Smokey MountainsMaybe when we have some more time we can hike the AT from End to End, anyone game?

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